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I wonder what those "68xx" channels are. I see one for my DMA... but I thought we had all the LiLs in HD already. I'll be curious to see if I'm forgetting something.

The "UP" channels are just placekeepers. Certain commercial equipment doesn't like empty transponders (no channels assigned) so a couple years ago DISH started placing fake channels in the table on transponders without any real channels. DISH does not always remove them when real channels are added to the transponder.

And no PBS HD in Boston, nothing but the Big Four. Meanwhile at Directv they have 15 out of 16 Boston locals in HD....everything but ION.

Isn't there a deadline of February 2013 for all locals to be in HD in any market that has any HD now?

Yes, there is a deadline and I believe it's February 17th, 2013. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have seventeen local channels broadcasting an HD signal. Dish currently carries fourteen of them. I'm curious to see if the other three get added by February 17th.

Yes, there is a deadline and I believe it's February 17th, 2013. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we have seventeen local channels broadcasting an HD signal. Dish currently carries fourteen of them. I'm curious to see if the other three get added by February 17th.

Dish has a lot of catching up to do in one month here in the East. Our HD additions had to wait for E*16.

James - I am looking at one of the previous uplinks for Chicago. There were 5 HD local channels added this past week. I see that they were added to 119 on a spotbeam as opposed to 129 like all the other HD locals in Chicago were added. I also see this:

What was on that transponder previously? I see it was previously QPSK and it says Lansing, so were there Lansing SD locals that were moved elsewhere? I am looking under channel moves and don't see anything moved. I'm curious to what was on this transponder previously because it seems like it came out of thin air that they would add Chicago locals to it.

What was on that transponder previously? I see it was previously QPSK and it says Lansing, so were there Lansing SD locals that were moved elsewhere? I am looking under channel moves and don't see anything moved. I'm curious to what was on this transponder previously because it seems like it came out of thin air that they would add Chicago locals to it.

That spotbeam transponder was previously vacant - no channels at all other than the fake "6886 UP29" channel DISH placed there for technical reasons. Not all spotbeams are in use.

The "Lansing" name is a reference to some place that the footprint of the spot covers ... not a reference to any market that has ever been on the footprint. There are a lot of spot footprints that could use better names. Some of the names come from FCC filings.

I see the newest 61.5W TIDs assignment is confusing them-self, that's why it was v7 v8 updates:
1201 ... 1232 is clear ; it's for tp1...tp32, same for 1601/1701/1801/1901 ... , but
1301... and 1401 ... and 1501... had ugly mess.

I see the newest 61.5W TIDs assignment is confusing them-self, that's why it was v7 v8 updates: 1201 ... 1232 is clear ; it's for tp1...tp32, same for 1601/1701/1801/1901 ... , but 1301... and 1401 ... and 1501... had ugly mess.

Keep looking for glitches ... 1218, 1220, 1222, 1224, 1226, 1228, 1230 and 1232 are for uplinks from Spokane to various spots on E16. 1201, 1203, 1207, 1209, 1215, 1217, 1219 and 1223 were for uplinks from Miami to Echostar 12. The numbers 1201 and 1209 will be reused for Echostar 16.

DISH is consolidating their uplink centers ... using the ones they have for western arc uplinks and not needing to use uplinks that fit into Cablevision's plan.